Insurgent Quotes

• I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.

  Veronica Roth

  Divergent, Dauntless

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• "What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too."

  Veronica Roth

  Tobias, Scream, Dies

  "Insurgent". Book by Veronica Roth, 2012.

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• The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

  George Steiner

  Broken, Silence, Society

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.432, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• You're too important to just... die.

  Veronica Roth

  Important, Dies

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• I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. "THAT'S why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.

  Veronica Roth

  Nice, Mind, Together

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• It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

  Veronica Roth

  Cease

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• I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.

  Veronica Roth

  Gun, Bullets, Tobias

  "Insurgent". Book by Veronica Roth, 2012.

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• We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

  Veronica Roth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth (p. 47), 2011.

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• Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know.

  John Abizaid

  Cells, People, May

  "General John Abizaid". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• We're all right, you know,' he says quietly. 'You and me. Okay?' My chest aches, and I nod. 'Nothing else is all right.' His whisper tickles my cheek. 'But we are.

  Veronica Roth

  Ache, Okay, Knows

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• May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble." "Why would it?" I say softly, so no one else can hear. "After all I've done..." "It isn't about you," she says. "It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

  Veronica Roth

  Voice, Done, May

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• I don't know how much longer I can complain.

  Homer

  Annie Hall, Complaining, Drawn Together

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• One choice can transform you!

  Veronica Roth

  Choices, Determined, Tris Prior

  Veronica Roth (2012). “Insurgent”, Veronica Roth

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• Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

  Veronica Roth

  Sad, Grief, Sorrow

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• Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion.

  Veronica Roth

  Scary Things, Devotion, Erudite

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• I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.

  Veronica Roth

  Way, Mines, Has Beens

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• Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.

  Veronica Roth

  Powerful, Animal, Truth Is

  Veronica Roth (2012). “Insurgent Collector's Edition (Enhanced Edition)”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

  Veronica Roth

  Bravery, Doe, Way

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• Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.

  Veronica Roth

  Killing, Worst, Can Do

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• What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed. "Honestly?" "Does now seem like the time for honesty?" I look at her from the corner of my eye. "I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.

  Veronica Roth

  Honesty, Eye, Thinking

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• One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.

  Veronica Roth

  Choices, Define You, Tris Prior

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• I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.

  Veronica Roth

  Tobias, Needed, Knows

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• Let me get this straight. So you left the Dauntless compound to get ready for war... and took your makeup bag with you?" "Yep. Figured it would be harder for anyone to shoot me if they saw how devastatingly attractive I was.

  Veronica Roth

  War, Makeup, Would Be

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• So, the thing we’re all not talking about,” he says. He gestures to me. “You almost died, a sadistic pansycake saved you, and now we’re all waging some serious war with the factionless as allies.” “Pansycake?” says Christina. “Dauntless slang.” Lynn smirks. “Supposed to be a huge insult, only no one uses it anymore.” “Because it’s so offensive,” says Uriah, nodding. “No. Because it’s so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?” “And a half,” he says.

  Veronica Roth

  War, Stupid, Thinking

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• I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Naps, Cake

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